I got it for him for Christmas – more than a little so I could read it. (My parents have an impressive array of books, and my father is very interested in history and archaeology. In fact, Çatalhöyük appeared in a great number of coffee-table books I perused as a child. Çatalhöyük was, in a nutshell, a long-duration Neolithic town characterized by fairly early sedentism and domestication, under-floor burial, and elaborate ritual paintings, figurines, etc. Ian Hodder is a renowned archaeologist, and Çatalhöyük is a renowned archaeological site in modern-day Turkey. I’ve always been interested in how people live past and present. I studied anthropology in undergrad, with a concentration in archaeology. In keeping with the “Renaissance man ” approach to life we try to cultivate, I thought I’d tell you about it! We can consider this the first of many book reviews to come. I recently finished a leisurely reading of Ian Hodder’s The Leopard’s Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Çatalhöyük (London: Thames & Hudson, 2006).
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